By BitcoDavid Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out! Ziff Davis among others, is reporting that the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA is dead in the Senate. Apparently, the bill contained insufficient privacy protections. This site, joined 900 others in a protest of the bill this
By BitcoDavid Yes, you read that right. I’m 56 years old (going on 35). Jack’s birthday is tomorrow. He’ll be 4. You look at his pics, and you think, awww – such a punim. But see, Jack’s days as a puppy were not good ones. He was born into a Georgia dog fighting ring, and
DeafInPrison.com is proud to join Moorbey’z Blog and others in this effort. Click the pic for more info. Related articles Internet blackout: Will sites follow Anonymous in CISPA protest? (itproportal.com) Anonymous leads 200+ websites in April 22 blackout to protest CISPA (thenextweb.com) Anonymous Calls For ‘Internet Blackout Day’ To Protest CISPA | LeakSource (joyunderwood.wordpress.com) Talk
By BitcoDavid Finally, a post. Let’s start with the fact that today’s 4/20. Those of you who know what that means… know what that means. As I understand it, Denver is embroiled in a huge, high profile celebration of this (very) unofficial, unconventional and controversial holiday. You can say what you want, but I’d be
By BitcoDavid Woburn, MA may be the modern Northeastern equivalent of Andy Griffith‘s Mayberry, but it’s only 12 miles northwest of Boston. Boston, where I lived for 18 of my 38 years in New England. In all that time, I’ve seen far too much violence, crime, death, disease and destructive behavior, but I don’t recall
By BitcoDavid Two weeks from today, I’ll be 56 years old. Who’d a thunk I’d ever make it this far? Worse, in 3 weeks, my marriage will be 19 years old. All the credit goes to Maureen. Woman’s a saint. I wouldn’t have stayed with me, for a month. I’m working on a new piece
By BitcoDavid Shanna Groves, prolific author, hearing loss activist, Internet personality and Show Me Your Ears diva, has graciously offered to provide this Supporter Contribution in the form of a cyber-book tour. She and I collaborated laboriously and came up with the following for your edification and delight. Shanna Groves was diagnosed with progressive hearing loss
By BitcoDavid Well, our post-a-day streak was broken yesterday, but before you go thinking I dropped the ball, I want you to know I was busy drumming up some Supporter Contributions that will be going up this week. In keeping with our editorial priority list, the first order of business in today’s digest post is
By BitcoDavid Interns will present on their projects involving deaf possibly wrongfully convicted individuals, deaf prisoners & about lobbying the FCC for telecommunication access equality. Guest organizations: Council for Court Excellence & the Corrections Information Council We will be in the Library–>LCB112 There are shuttles to/from NoMa and Union Station Metros to Gallaudet University Campus:
By BitcoDavid True. There were 2 ASL interpreters, and what I noticed there, was that not only did they take turns interpreting for the individual speakers, but they did this cool tandem thing for audience questions. An audience member would sign her question, and Terp 1 would say it in English, then Terp 2 would
So Long CISPA!!!
By BitcoDavid Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out! Ziff Davis among others, is reporting that the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA is dead in the Senate. Apparently, the bill contained insufficient privacy protections. This site, joined 900 others in a protest of the bill this
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